r" ^ BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDED IN I88I BY HENRY LEE FHCGINSON 7 \%i m X -n f \m -y^ SEVENTY-EIGHTH SEASON 1958-1959 Carnegie Hall, New York Boston Symphony Orchestra (Seventy-eighth Season, 1958-1959) CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director RICHARD BURGIN, Associate Conductor PERSONNEL ViOUNS Violas Bass Clarinet Richard Burgin Joseph de Pasquale Rosario Mazzeo Coricert-inaster Jean Cauhape Bassoons Alfred Krips Eugen Lehner Albert Bernard Sherman \Valt George Zaiofsky Ernst Panenka Rolland George Tapley Humphrey Theodore Brewster Norbert Lauga Jerome Lipson Vladimir Resnikoff Robert Karol Co N TRA - B.\ssoon Harr)' Dickson Reuben Green Richard Plaster Gottfried Wil finger Bernard Kadinoff Horns Vincent Mauricd Einar Hansen James Stagliano Joseph Leibovici John Fiasca Charles Yancidi Earl Hedberg Emil Komsand Harry Shapiro Roger Shermont Violoncellos Harold Meek Minot Beale Samuel Mayes Paul Keaney Silbennan Herman Alfred Zighera Osboume McConathy Stanley Benson Jacobus Langendocn Trumpets Leo Panasevich Mischa Nieland Roger \'oisin Sheldon Rotenberg Karl Zeise Armando Ghitalla Fredy Ostrovsky Josef Zimbler Andr^ Come Clarence Knudson Bernard Parronchi Gerard Goguen Pierre Mayer Martin Hoherman Trombones Manuel Zung Louis Berger William Gibson Samuel Diamond Richard Kapuscinski William Moyer Victor Manusevitch Robert Ripley Kauko Kabila Winograd James Nagy Winifred Josef Orosz Mclvin Brvant Flutes Lloyd Stonestreet Tuba Doriot Anthony Dwyer K. Vinal Smith Saverio Messina James Pappoutsakis William "VVaterhouse Phillip Kaplan Harps WilUam Marshall Bernard Zighera Leonard Moss Piccolo Olivia Luetcke Jesse Ccci George Madsen Timpani Noah Bielski Oboes Everett Firth Alfred Schneider Ralph Gomberg Harold Farberman Joseph Silverstein Jean Devergie Percussion f • John Holmes Basses Charles Smith Georges Moleux English H(MIN Harold Thompson Henry Freeman Arthur Press Louis Speyer Irving Frankel Piano Henry Portnoi Clarinets Bernard Zi^era Henri Girard Gino Cioffi John Barwicki Manuel Valerio Library Leslie Martin Pasquale Cardillo Victor Alpert Ortiz \Valton Erf Clarinet William Shisler S E VE N T Y - E I G H T H SEASON, 1958-1959 Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor CONCERT BULLETIN with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk The trustees of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot President Jacob J. Kaplan Vice-President Richard C. 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Tune to WQXR, 1560 AM, 96.3 FM, the radio station of The New York Times. mm [«] SEVENTY-EIGHTH SEASON • NINETEEN HUNDRED FIFTY-EIGHT - FIFTY-NINE Seventy-third Season in New York i Fifth Evening Concert WEDNESDAY, March ii, at 8:45 o'clock Program Faure "Pelleas et Melisande," Suite from the Incidental Music to Maeterlinck's Tragedy, Op. 80 I. Prelude: Quasi adagio II. "Fileuse": Andantino quasi allegretto III. Sicilienne: Allegretto molto moderate IV. Adagio HoNEGGER Symphony No. 4, "Deliciae Basilienses" I. Lento e misterioso; Allegro II. Larghetto III. Allegro INTERMISSION Brahms Violin Concerto in D major. Op. 77 I. Allegro non troppo II. Adagio III. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace SOLOIST CHRISTIAN FERRAS Music of these programs is available at the Music Library, 58th Street Branch, the New York Public Library. BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS [S] "PELLEAS AND MELISANDE," Orchestral Suite, Op. 80, TAKEN FROM THE StAGE MuSIC TO MaETERLINCK's PlAY By Gabriel Faure Born in Pamiers (Ari^ge), France, May 12, 1845; died in Passy, November 4, 1924 Composed in 1898, Faure 's incidental music to Maeterlinck's play was first heard in the production given in London, June 21, 1898, with Mrs. Patrick Campbell. There was a performance at the Boston Theatre in Boston, also by Mrs. Campbell's company, April 12, 1902. The suite drawn from the music was first performed at a Lamoureux concert in Paris, February 3, 1901. It was introduced in Boston at a concert of the New England Conservatory Orchestra, March 8, 1904. There was a performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, December 17, 1904, and again December 2, 1905. Vincent d'Indy, as guest, conducted it March 18, 1911, Pierre Monteux, November 23, 1923, Serge Koussevitzky, April 21, 1939, December 29, 1939, April 20, 1945 (two movements); November 23, 1945 (Paul Paray, conducting). Charles Munch performed the Molto adagio in memory of Ginette Neveu, November 18, 1949. The Suite was performed under the direction of Ernest Ansermet, Decem- ber 14-15, 1951. (^(ipELL^AS ET MELISANDE/' with Faure's incidental music, was • produced four years before the first performance of Debussy's opera on the same play (the play without music had been published in 1892 and first staged in Paris at the Bouffes Parisiens, May 17, 1893). The first of the three movements in Gabriel Faure's suite i,s the prelude to the play. Quasi adagio, it develops two themes of lyric character, and suggests the forest scene to come with a soft horn call. The second movement, ''Fileuse," is an entr'acte in preparation for the third act where, in a room in the castle, "Pelleas and Melisande are discovered, Melisande spinning with a distaff at the back of the room." It is based upon a spinning figure in triplets {andantino quasi allegretto), which is given to the violins and occasionally alternated with the violas. The Adagio is from the closing scene, the death of Melisande. [copyrighted] "A Resort of True Distinction in the Matchless Berkshire Hills" THE BERKSHIRE I X ]\ GREAT BARRINGTON. MASSACHUSETTS invites you to enjoy its New England Charm and Hospitality Fine accommodations at moderate American and European Plan Rates Dining Rooms open from early morning until midnight Cocktail Lounge Open from May into November James J. Joyce, Landlord [4] ; PLANS FOR THE BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL Charles Munch announces his program tured in all the works, and soloists for plans for the Berkshire Festival by this the Mozart "Requiem" and Beethoven's Orchestra at Tanglewood next summer. Ninth Symphony will include Adele The concerts will begin on Wednesday, Addison, soprano, Florence Kopleff, con- July 1, and close Sunday, August 9. tralto, Blake Stern, tenor and Donald Charles Munch will conduct fourteen Gramm, bass. John McCollum will be of the eighteen Festival concerts and tenor soloist in the Berlioz "Requiem." Pierre Monteux, the Orchestra's 84-year- Dr. Munch will also present Bach's old "conductor emeritus" will conduct Cantata No. 50, "Nun ist das Heil," on four concerts, one on each of the last July 3rd and Beethoven's Choral Fan- four weekends. tasy on August 7th. Rudolf Serkin, pianist, and Isaac Stern, Other Festival features include per- violinist, will each appear at three Fes- formances of Mozart's Piano Concerto tival concerts during the 1959 season. in G major, K. 453 and d'Indy's "Sym- Each has made special arrangements to phony on a French Mountain Air" by appear with the Boston Symphony Or- the French pianist, Nicole Henriot- chestra and will perform classics of the Schweitzer, and the Concerto for Violin concerto literature. Mr. Serkin will be and Oboe in C minor by Bach, per- heard in Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1 formed with the Orchestra by Ruth in D minor. Op. 15; Mendelssohn's Posselt, violin, and Ralph Gomberg, Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. oboe. Bethany Beardslee, soprano, will 25; and two works by Beethoven—the be soloist in Bach's Cantata No. 51, Fantasy for Piano, Chorus and Orches- "Jauchzet Gott in alien Landen," and tra, and the Fourth Piano Concerto in the concert of Saturday evening, July 4, G major. Op. 58. Isaac Stern will be will be devoted to performances of soloist in the Violin Concertos of Tchai- Piano Concertos by Bach for one, two, kovsky, Brahms and Mendelssohn. three and four pianos. The concerts of the first two weeks The Berkshire Festival dates follow of the Festival, in the Theatre-Concert the pattern of previous years with six Hall by members of the Boston Sym- weekends of concerts on Friday and phony Orchestra, will be devoted to Saturday evenings at 8:30 and Sunday music of Bach (July 3-4-5) and Mozart afternoons at 2:30. The first two week- (July 10-11-12), and will be conducted ends of concerts by a smaller orchestra by Charles Munch. The last four week- of Boston Symphony Orchestra members ends will follow a plan of previous in the Theatre-Concert Hall, under the years, featuring the works of the great direction of Charles Munch, are on composers, combined with contemporary July 3-4-5 (Bach), and July 10-11-12 works. The opening weekend will give (Mozart). The two Saturday evening especial prominence to music by Tchai- concerts of this series on July 4 and kovsky (July 17-18-19), and the follow- July 11 will be held in the Music Shed ing weeks to Brahms (July 24-25-26), to accommodate the larger demand for composers of the Romantic Period, seats for these performances. The last including Berlioz, Mendelssohn and four weekends by the full Boston Sym- Schumann (July 31-August 1-2) ; and phony Orchestra in the Music Shed are: Beethoven (August 7-8-9).